Contents

• ^*** Important note
• Aquatic diseases overview
• Signs of ill health
• Ill health due to environment
• Lack of oxygen (Hypoxia)
• Too much oxygen (Gas bubble disease)
• Fluctuating pH (Acidosis & Alkalosis)
• Faulty nutrition
• Temperature shock
• Poisons and Toxins
• Detergents
• Metals
• Plastics
• Chlorine
• I'll health due to water conditions
• Nitrogen compounds
• Ammonia
• Ammonium
• Nitrite
• Nitrate
• Hydrogen sulphide
• Ill health due infectious organisms
• Infections of the skin & gills
• Protozoal diseases
• White-spot disease
• Velvet disease
• Sliminess of the skin
• Costia necatrix
• Chilodonella cyprini
• Trichodina
• Helminth Diseases
• Skin Flukes
• Gyrodactylus
• Dactylogyrus
• Diplozoon paradoxum
• Diplostomum and Clinostomum
• Method of Treatment
• Recommended treatment
• Acriflavine
• Chloramine
• Chloromycetin^®
• Formalin
• Mepacrine
• Mercurochrome^®
• Merthiolate^®
• Methylene blue
• Potassium permanganate
• Phenoxethol
• Quinine
• Sodium chloride (salt)
• Streptomycin
• Terramycin^®

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